Wire Drawing 1

Partially working program to draw wires that are affected by gravity for J-woo. This only draws one wire, doesn't import a bg image, and doesn't export yet. But, it's a start.

Click here or on the image to test the app.

PixelPusher - New Project Idea

I've been thinking a little bit about ways of visualizing images that are different from the rectangular pixels I usually see. I've built a Processing sketch that changes the rectangles into other shapes, and that's nice. The individual elements don't need to be on a rectangular grid, but could be hexagonal or triangular, or other tessellating shapes.
I also really like the motion of physics simulations in Processing, and I thought maybe an image could be made by repelling and attracting pixels that settle into irregular patterns but communicate gradations none the less. I learned to do this in illustration school when it was called stippling.

Without any work in code yet, I've mocked up what this might look like. It's only black and white so far, but color could be added (either RGB or CMYK or something else).



Pixel Field: Evenly spaced pixels waiting for a source image


Source Image: Pixels repelled and attracted by the dark and light areas of the photo

A related Processing sketch here

Airplane Shadows _ Mockup 1

Airplane Shadows _ Mockup 1, originally uploaded by mdshaub.

A quick mockup of a project idea. I love the flight patterns project from years past, and have always wanted to build something similar. Seeing a number of airplane shadows pass over my office gave me this idea. I hope to build an airplane shadow map using flight position, altitude, heading, and aircraft type coupled with calculations for sun angles.

The scale and speed should be pretty accurate, 100 foot long plane traveling at 570 mph (about 830 feet per sec). That's pretty fast, viewing at this scale.

Putting the results into Google Maps would be step 1, though I'd love that in Google Earth you'd see the shadows rolling over hills.

Bonsai V4.0 _ Matrix Revisited

I dug out my LED Matrices and was pleasantly surprised that I'd designed these custom carrier boards and had some sample code on my laptop that actually worked.

This is in support of Dao's latest project, and she's currently working on the other half (a dress sewn from scratch, and a custom matrix of LEDs connected with conductive fabric tape and thread).

We're both glad the arduino controller bit is taken care of.

FYI, these carrier boards would be even better if I hadn't messed up some pins so the matrix rows go 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Ah, it can always be fixed in the code, and was!